A former U.S. Marine was convicted Friday of abducting and raping a University of Maryland graduate student who he then left for dead in a secluded, wooded area on a cold February morning. Jorge Torrez, 21, also was found guilty...

Several Leesburg teens have used a common incense product to get high in recent weeks, according to the Leesburg police department. The product, which is legal, is known as K2 and commonly referred to as "spice." It is a combination...

UPDATE, 4:15 p.m.: Officials at the Medical Examiner's Officer say they have not ruled Mohammed's death a homicide. They would not elaborate. Police had called a press conference for 3:45 p.m. Friday to possibly amend the charges, according to sources....

The District man who attemped to rob an armored truck outside Washington Adventist Hospital in Takoma Park in 2009 and eventually barricaded himself inside a home before being shot by a Prince George's County officer was sentenced Thursday to 183...

Police are investigating what they call the "suspicious death" of an 18-year-old Fairfax man who died about 11 p.m. Thursday shortly after being brought to Inova Springfield Healthplex by an acquaintance, Fairfax police said. The victim is believed to have...

Two Ohio women were arrested after one called police to a hotel room under false pretenses, then asking them to investigate a customer's nonpayment for sex, according to this report: When the woman summoned officers to a Camp Washington motel...

Montgomery County police have placed two officers on administrative leave who were involved in an altercation with a 65-year-old man who died Thursday morning. The officers used a electronic stun device and pepper spray on the man Sunday night, and...

Police in Prince George's County have identified the man shot and killed outside a banquet hall in Bowie early Saturday morning as Kenneth Lamarr Prince, 26, of Oxon Hill, authorities said Thursday. Prince was among two men shot just before...

Federal authorities used a marriage license to track down a man wanted in Washington, D.C. Anthony Ross was found in central Ohio the day before his wedding. WBNS-TV in Columbus reports that Ross, 41, had been wanted since 2006 for...

D.C. police have identified a man found stabbed to death Tuesday night as a 46-year-old resident of Northwest Washington. Rodney Turpin was found bleeding from his wound in the 6900 block of Blair Road shortly before 10:30 p.m. by officers...

No charges will be filed against either of the two drivers who fatally struck Natasha Nicole Tobin, 25, as she walked in a southbound lane of I-270 on Oct. 11 shortly before midnight, Maryland State Police said. Tobin, of Fort...

Federal prosecutors say a Catonsville woman has pleaded guilty to bulk cash smuggling after giving three people more than $500,000 to take to Jamaica. Forty-one-year-old Jean Brown entered the plea on Wednesday. She will be sentenced on Feb. 1. Brown...

A store clerk in North Carolina scared off a robber after she grabbed his gun while he was cleaning out the cash register, according to this report: As the suspect was grabbing as much money as he could, Wilmer reached...

A 65-year-old Silver Spring man remains hospitalized in critical condition today after a Sunday night clash with Montgomery County police, officials said Wednesday. Officers used an electronic-stun device and pepper spray to subdue the man. At one point, responding medics...

Anne Arundel police are investigating the Wednesday death of Khardiatou Goloko, 49, of Baltimore, who was hit while crossing Fort Smallwood Road at about 6:30 a.m., police said. Goloko was lagging behind a group of adults that already had crossed...

A reckless driving charge against Redskins' offensive lineman Trent Williams was dismissed by a Fairfax County judge Wednesday because the calibration of the arresting officer's speedometer was not properly notarized. Williams was driving a Porsche west on the Dulles Toll...

Police in Prince George's County have arrested a Kensington man in connection with the quadruple cutting that stemmed from a drunken altercation inside a College Park bar early Tuesday morning. Leonardo Alonso Ramos, 21, is charged with attempted second degree...

Veteran D.C. Public Works employee Larry Hutchins, 51, was killed Wednesday in an early morning shooting that wounded and hospitalized another DPW employee, according to District police. A third man who was wearing "some sort of a uniform" may have...

District detectives on Tuesday arrested Meeko Carraway, 18, of no fixed address, charging him in the Sept. 25 daytime shooting death of Darrel Hendy of Bowie. Police found Hendy, 29, shot in the 800 block of Southern Avenue SE at...

Federal prosecutors say a 28-year-old Portsmouth man is set to spend 36 years in prison for his role in the Bounty Hunter Bloods gang. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of Virginia says Eric Drandell Ward was sentenced...

Maryland State police say a Frederick woman was killed in a three-vehicle crash on U.S. 40 west of Church Hill Road. Fifty-one-year-old Tammy Marie Jessee was trapped in her car and pronounced dead at the scene of the crash on...

The Virginia Department of Forensic Science is expected to present its report regarding the use of a controversial form of DNA searching that helps identify criminal suspects using genetic material from their relatives. The Forensic Science Board — which oversees...

Three costumed robbers, one in a chicken suit, stole a New York boy's bike, according to this report: The trio confronted the teenager while he was riding his bicycle on Route 25A at 1:15 p.m. One of the apes punched...

A Fairfax City man was found dead in his home Tuesday morning after a fire that investigators think may have been sparked by a smoldering cigarette. The man’s name was not released pending notification of his family....

Prince George’s County police are searching for a Fort Washington man who has been missing since Sept. 30. Police are looking for Vincent A. Walker, 52, who was last seen driving a silver Mitsubishi Montero with Virginia tags JY42348....

A Loudoun County sheriff's deputy was indicted by a county grand jury Tuesday on charges of bribery and filing a false report, according to the Loudoun sheriff's office. Deputy Jason C. Warren, of Kearneysville, W. Va., responded to a report...

Fairfax County Police officers went door-to-door Tuesday notifying residents in the Hunter Mill Road area of an overnight burglary and an attempted burglary detectives believe may be related to 87 other incidents that have occurred throughout the county since August,...

A District firefighter who was photographed cooking eggs while naked in the Columbia Heights firehouse following a July retirement event for a fellow firefighter has been place on leave while an internal affairs investigation continues, department spokesman Pete Piringer said...

Police in Prince George’s County have charged a Greenbelt man with first-degree murder in the death of his 3-month-old daughter last month, authorities said Tuesday. Jonathan Jacobs, 22, is believed to have “assaulted” 3-month-old Zariyah Jacobs-Miller, police said in a...

Four young men — including three University of Maryland students — were cut and wounded early Tuesday morning after a drunken altercation inside an off-campus bar continued outside, police said. The incident began about 1:30 a.m., when the three students...

A Fairfax County police officer found the missing sport-utility vehicle of slain car wash owner Yong S. Yun in Annandale Monday night, but police still have no suspects in Yun's killing. Yun, 61, was discovered by his wife in their...

A woman who was walking on Interstate 270 near Gaithersburg late Monday night was fatally injured when she was struck by a car and then an out-of-service Ride On bus, Maryland state police said. Police were working Tuesday morning to...

A homicide suspect sought by Montgomery County detectives is a member of the "38 Mob" street gang who opened fire on a 27-year-old after the victim had been beaten, robbed and was lying on the ground, police said this week....

Ocean City police say an autopsy shows a woman whose body was found on the beach earlier this month died of accidental drowning with complications from alcohol and drug intoxication. Thirty-two-year-old Tara Chanise Taylor of Lanham was found unconscious on...

A Washington state man who was sitting handcuffed in a police car on the way to jail managed to escape, according to this report: "Lair was handcuffed behind his back at the time of escape," the report said. Officers from...

A 14-year-old boy was struck by a Gaithersburg Police cruiser Monday, and taken to a hospital for treatment of minor injuries, officials said. At 3:16 p.m., the marked police car was traveling west on Darnestown Road at Quince Orchard Road,...

For the second time in three days, a child in a stroller was struck by a vehicle in Montgomery County, officials said Monday afternoon. The child is expected to survive. About 3:30 p.m., a woman was pushing a stroller near...

A Baltimore police spokesman says five men have died in separate shootings over the weekend, and police are investigating the possibility that two of the shootings are related. Baltimore police spokesman Det. Jeremy Silbert says the first victim was a...

As a member of the U.S. Navy Reserve, Brian Mullennex has served on combat missions in Iraq. And as a deputy with the Frederick County Sheriff’s Office, he’s encountered his share of gun-toting criminals. But it’s his wife, Jennifer, who...

A would-be Dunkin' Donuts robber fled empty-handed after he was shot with a water hose, according to this report: Kahn had been spraying trays with a sink hose, and turned it on the intruder, who apparently was afraid of water....

A Virginia State Police spokesman says a 9-year-old boy has died in a motorcycle crash. Sgt. Les Tyler says Robert Darwin Promer was a passenger on his father’s motorcycle when it collided with a pickup truck Saturday afternoon on state...

A 20-year-old Southeast Washington man has been charged in a fatal shooting that occurred almost three years ago, D.C. police said. Officers said Gerald Anderson was arrested Saturday in connection with the death of David Mayo, who was found fatally...